The major objective of this book is to contribute to the present state of knowledge by exploring empirical links between the processes of diffusion of financial innovations— exchange-traded funds—and growing deployment of ICT across Asia-Pacific countries, between 2004 and 2017. We examine the evolutionary patterns of ETFs on selected Asia-Pacific stock exchanges and verify the hypothesized relationship between increasing ICT penetration...

ETFs są instrumentami umożliwiającymi osiąganie przez inwestorów szeregu korzyści, zwłaszcza w zestawieniu z tradycyjnymi funduszami. O wysokim zainteresowaniu ETFs świadczą rosnące rozmiary rynku. Jednak wzrost zróżnicowania ETFs i wprowadzenie na rynek funduszy syntetycznych sprawiły, że pojawiły się nowe czynniki ryzyka, które muszą zostać uwzględnione zarówno przez podmioty biorące udział w obrotach, jak i przez instytucje...

This study evaluates the performance of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) by using various tracking error calculation approaches. The aim of the paper is, on the one hand, an evaluation of the performance of ETFs relative to their benchmarking indexes and, on the other, an endeavour to specify any relationship between this performance and both geographical location and the degree of market development. The research was conducted on...

In this paper an endeavour was made to evaluate the impact of Covid-19 on the achievement of the investment objectives by selected ETFs in developed and emerging markets. For this purpose, the tracking errors calculated for 18 different ETFs operating on the basis of American, Asian and European stock indexes were analyzed. The time range of the research was selected in such a way as to compare the period before the pandemic(pre-Covid)...